- Photo
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- Name
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- Comment
- Nabataean trading city carved straight into rose-red sandstone. You approach through the Siq, a narrow 1.2 km canyon that opens onto the Treasury facade — one of the great reveals in architecture.
- Address
- Petra Archaeological Park, Wadi Musa, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan
- Country
- Jordan
- Built
- c. 5th c. BC
- Why
- Architecture subtracted from rock rather than built on top of it
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